In this episode, I am joined with Dr. Anne Oeldorf-Hirsch who is an associate professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Connecticut. She obtained her Ph.D. from Pennsylvania State University. Her research interest is on the benefits of social media in terms of learning new information, civic engagement, and well-being. Specifically, her work focuses on the features of these communities that shape how we communicate with and through them. Her main line of research aims to understand the effects of the shift to engaging with news content via social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter on knowledge about and involvement in current events.